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Prof. Dr. Vadim Oswalt

Function

  • Board Member
  • Spokesperson of Section 2
  • Member of Section 4
Prof. Dr. Vadim Oswalt

Contact

Contact

Justus Liebig University Giessen

Department of History
Otto-Behagel-Str. 10, C 205
35394 Giessen

Germany

Tel: 0641/99 - 28310; -28301
Fax: 0641/99 - 28309
 
 
 
Short Biography

  • 2008 – present Spokesperson of the "Gießener Netzwerk Bildungswissenschaften" at the JLU
  • 2004 – present Professor of Didactics of History at the JLU
  • 2014 Named Herder Chair of the Herder Institute Marburg
  • 2006 2008 Director of the Department of History at the JLU
  • 1995 2004 Lecturer at the University of Education Weingarten in Modern History and Didactics of History
  • 1999 Ph.D. at Tübingen University (Franz Ludwig Baumann Prize for the Dissertation)
  • 1990 1995 Graduate Secondary School Teacher in Friedrichshafen
  • 1983 Assistant at the Department of Germanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin
  • 1981 Studies in History, German Studies, and English at Tübingen University
Main Research Interests

  • Theory and Practice of History Teaching
  • Historical Maps - Developing History Atlasses and Comparative European Research
  • Space Conceptions in History Teaching
  • Historical Images and Visual Literacy
  • History and New Media: Interactive Teaching Concepts by Means of Internet and Software